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Brazil mentioned. LET'S GOOOO

I’m curious why you choose the phrase “superhero” rather than an Angel or “demigod” it seems to me that there is a transcendent quality to these dreams a suggestion that the romance between the girl and himself is a spiritually fated. This then contrasts between the nihilism of a A-moral world where there is no shame or virtue because goodness itself the absolute goodness of God or a undergirding benevolence means that there is no value or meaning to do anything well or to put one’s heart into anything because there is nothing greater than oneself besides an incompetent bureaucracy. In short his dream is a world where God exists and reality is one where it does not. I will point out that Nature and Natural Beauty, Peace, Tranquility, Healing, Beauty, Inspiration, Serenity, Freedom, Love, Compassion and Joy, and Sexuality (being the creation of new life). Are all potential synonyms for God and that all of these are absent in Brazil. The notion of connection between couples and the beauty of intimacy and connection, which creates a sense of peace and security that comes from the Union of masculine and feminine taking care of complementing eachother. Again this is opposed to the insecure atomized lonlely chaos which is absent of any peace, intamacy beauty or serenity and the like. I think it is a very important aspect to realize that anything which could be called transcendent has been purged from the world and that his dream is not of being something better exactly but living in a world defined by transcendence and beauty. Weather you believing in God or not you must admit that the history of nearly all narrative before the last three centuries is allegory for our relationship with the sacred and how to established it that relationship through living a heroic life. The film isn’t bleak if you understand what it’s meant to be pointing to what you yourself have, you have a soul, a power within you that tells you what goodness is what beauty is and what truth is. Brazil is the portrayal of a world where everyone and everything has forgotten this sacred aspect of humanity where there is only gain and loss of power but without the transcendent sacred aspect of being power is ruthlessly nihilistic. If you reflect on the fact that each and every one of us knows Beauty is Good, Truth is Good, That Virtue is Good and that we would be hard pressed to forget it. That many would rather die then surrender these things and the world of Brazil May loom like Damocles sword but that it should because we should never forget what we have Inherently. As someone who has dedicated there life to a particular spiritual scriptural tradition, I would remind everyone that goodness is enhanced by benevolent acts through inspiration as much as it is by cruelty through revulsion. That it is a mistake to fail to make use of the hard times as much as the good times, to only side with what pleases us and not recognize the utility of what troubles us. Both sides are of equal merit, we should remember difficulty, strife and struggle temper oneself to fight for something better and that being a witness to our trauma is to calibrate the true worth of what is joyous.

Maybe if i dont get robbedmurdered

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@@timberwolfmountaineer873 Brilliant

so true

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[Canned Laughter is heard in the back-ground.]

Good joke.

ah, bring in the clowns

Der Todesking was better.

Is my favorite , dystopian retro-future movie , my take is more a Kafkaesque , Oneiric -nightmarish technocratic tyranny….

Man, Brazil made me so angry. It completely falls apart in the 3rd act

Small correction: The alternative title for Brazil is 1984 1/2. 1985 is the name of an unifficial sequel book.

I am taken aback that there is at least one other person in the world who knows how to use word "underrated". I appreciate it! It seems like words just don't mean anything anymore. "Underrated", "literally", "ironically", "GOAT (greatest of all time)" are just a few examples of words so commonly missed that they border on utter meaninglessness. What happened to a concern for mutual intelligibility? Do people not speak to be understood? We may as well just toss out all rules and definitions and start speaking in gibberish if we are no longer concerned about meaning and understanding.

Been a fan since I was a little kid. Such a great film! We used to rent it from library.

It was always a great film as a kid

Wow... The movie was life-changing for him.

@@darkcoeficient I wouldn't say the movie alone was to blame. He was known for having worked on many different jobs and also livig abroad for extended periods was his thing. I just think the timing was funny and I like to think that seeing this film made him make this decision sooner than later.

Wow, your story would make a great film also.

Well i gotta look that up now

@@TheTuttle99 Probably the worst legal scandal in British history. Not even surpassed by anything in the 18th or 19th centuries.

That reminds me of Australia's robodebt tragedy. Computerised fining system to the country's poorest people on the dole, thousands of incorrect fines went out, people killed themselves over it, headed by Australia's worst prime minister Scott Morrison (stiff competition but he managed to earn the superlative) before he took the top job.

​@@TheTuttle99It is the UK Post Office operating system called HORIZON. It was well known it was faulty for over 10 years. 3 suicides are linked to it and over 3000 "fraud judgements". Hope this helps your search. The people in charge are truly scum.

I am in a similar predicament . Recently I received a computer generated letter telling me I had been overpaid £4000 in the last 11 months. I demanded an explanation from a human being, especially considering I was off sick for 9 of those months and had my pay reduced to zero by the last 2 months. Err, we'll look into it. Well 4 months and 3 subject matter experts later, they still can't explain it. Point to note: My employer uses Horizon and Fujitsu systems. Just like the Post Office.

I remember watching this movie when it came out. I was a college kid and the ending blew my mind because I was so used to happy Hollywood endings for action/sci fi movies. It made me think. I loved it, I fell in love with movies because of Brazil.

Yes indeed, It's my favorite film of all time. I'm thankful for it having been made **at all** just like you mentioned, but also thankful for having the presence of mind after the first time I watched it at age 10 to forgo forming any critical strong opinions because I KNEW I needed to revisit it several years down the line as an adult to "get it". I really never even thought about it again until I was working for an excellent "had everything" movie store in my early 20's when the Criterion edition hit the shelves & it was like holding the fucking Dead Sea Scrolls w/ that box set in my hands bc it was "ohhhh yeah, this movie! THIS MOVIE!!!!! YES! NOW!!!!". It was one of those moments of being so incredibly excited & enthusiastic about something that is absolutely utterly impossible to convey to another human bc "eye of the beholder" & all just like everything else in life, haha. That time around I might as well have been a stand-in for the original movie poster bc it blew my fucking mind. There's never been another movie for me that has made absolute bleak despair feel so satisfying & fun.

Yep, me too. (It's frightening)

_"Ere I am, JH"_

Haha, excellent point. One of the absurd parts about what you mentioned which parallels well with Life of Brian's absurdist reasoning is the way my view of "Do all of the bizarre shit you'd like to yourself with or without whichever consenting adult to your heart's content for all I care, cuz I simply don't." is beyond inadequate unless I'm proactively going out and expending time & effort involving myself in said revolutionary political platform. Like practically a bigot in many people's eyes even though I'm like platinum-level egalitarian here because as I see it, every country, race, ethnicitty, gender, culture, religion & basically every way to conceive humans in some group sucks in some way or another. Also, everyone sucks as an individual person in some significant way too. Also we're all going to die. Soon too, apocalypse or not. We're all the same. See? My jaded nihilism is progressive af, yet rarely accepted as such. *Shrug* Fuck em

Completely underrated video. A shame millions didn't pay attention, we could actually change something instead of getting ground up in the machine.

Alas, the government data mines our lives for the same reason. At any time they can turn anyone into a convict. It's right on display in the U.S. now. And the brainwashed cannot even see it, they applaud it.

Read about John Carpenter vs Universal.

@@philyeary8809 John Carpenter is a legend. Given the nature of his creativity I can only imagine the sort of trouble he had trying to bring it to the big screen. AI actually makes me more hopeful for future creative works than less. Those with vision now have more tools at their disposal for vastly less money than previously would have been needed. Might be a good thing for movies when directors etc can do more for less. It's no wonder that when such huge amounts of money are being invested that those same investors try to appeal to as many as possible, there by diluting the original creative vision.

Try and find "Strike", in "The Comic Strip" series

@@MartinParsons-tr6wi thanks, I'll check it out.

@@M05tly "The Comic Strip presents." Hope you find it, it seems to be available. Some of the others are good too (The Yob)

Yeah, I loved this film when I saw it new. I still love it, but in a completely different way since I now realize this can be a reality.

"What's it about ?" "Ducting."

Greetings from Ireland ✊